thinking about bears

you can call me sage (they/she)

[animaepanda]

pinned post time go! ✨

you can call me Sage! pronouns are they/she with a preference for they/them.

icon by: me! :)

here's my linktree for (most of) my socials :)

@animaepanda-ocs for all my oc and homebrew world content! (this is the third try of this!)

@fandom-panda for all things fandom

#my post or #animaepanda.txt for my posts

#my art or #animaepanda.art for my art!

[rui-cifer]

Further, the reason why so many Japanese shows made it into the USA in the past in the first place was precisely because those in the USA saw these shows as inferior goods to be chopped up and sold to kids at a lesser cost to them than animating a whole show in the USA. Macross as a franchise was only recently able to come to the USA because Harmony Gold, the company that owns limited distribution rights to the original wanted to push their own sequels to Robotech sequel series, a series of sequels for Robotech, a show that they made by chopping up Chōjikū Yōsai Macross, Kikō Sōseiki MOSPEADA and Chōjikū Kidan Southern Cross. Harmony Gold did not want Macross' sequels to compete with their sequels, created in defiance of the original vision set forth by Kawamori (the original director), so they put sequels made by the actual original creators in a legal quagmire. Voltron, similarly, as a chopped together mess of multiple robot anime that barely justifies this fact and treats individual casts of characters as essentially exchangeable sets of characters, not characters from works with their own narrative and themes and messages.

Most localization changes that people make fun of happened unilaterally precisely because these people had never respected the original work. Like, yes, obviously, censors exist in the USA (though mentioning this to yanks make their head explode; censorship is for Bad Countries!), but would a respectful localizer push for Haruka and Michiru to be explicitly cousins rather than leaving it ambiguous enough to get past the censors that famously barely pay attention to things anyway? Is the Ghost Story dub really a funny haha better-than-original, or is it the localizers feeling alienated and upset at the very localized folklore-urban legend context, therefore not taking the work more or less faithfully adapted a long-running and beloved children's novel series with the gravitas it deserved? Does the Detective Conan localization really benefit from changing every Japanese name to western one? Does any of this sound co-equal to anyone?

Any discussion of JP-EN as shared cultural spheres that treats Japan-USA cultural exchange as anything but the occupier plundering the cultural production of their occupied and doing as they pleased with it for close to 2 generations ignores much of history of anime in the West, especially the USA, and imagines a past where every show was given at least a pretension at a faithful-enough localization and physical media releases like Crunchyroll and Discotek media had popped up as soon as the USA started occupying Japan.

[artfight]

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[borealiszero]

Hate it when ai is funnier than me

[withmama]

let's cuddle with mama

[withmama]

our spotty mama

[withmama]

let's sneak up behind mama

[withmama]

our watchguard mama

[withmama]

snoozin with my mama

[animaepanda]

ive only seen the first episode of the among us tv show, but cyan and black are yuri to me

[withmama]

my proud mama

[withmama]

let's bat at mama

[queer-as-city-folk]

Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people

[queer-as-city-folk]

The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful

[queer-as-city-folk]

This year is:

11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US

23 years since sodomy was legalized

57 years since Stonewall

[withmama]

let's test mama's patience

[withmama]

let's smile for the picture with mama

[withmama]

let's rub foreheads on mama

[withmama]

let's have little hands with mama